Chapter 352: Liao Invasion
The Baigou River was rolling roughly, and the Liao army that had been cowering on the north bank for more than a long time was all assembled and ready to cross the river. For them, the Central Plains is a hunting ground, full of gold and silver, and the army of the southerners is the prey of a little resistance, and hunting them is not even in danger of hunting beasts.
This is what they have discovered in recent years, and the combat effectiveness of the army of the Nan people has declined faster than that of the Liao people.
The emperor of the southerners, Zhao Ji, was even more absurd than their emperor Yelu Yanxi, and the Liao State still had some clans that did things, while the Song court was all some annihilators.
Hundreds of horsemen galloped on the south bank, passing on the movements of the soldiers and horses of the Great Liang.
Yelu Yanxi went down to the river surrounded by Liao generals, and he was about to cross the river first.
Seeing this, Yelu Dashi hurriedly said: "The southerners have also assembled, and it is likely to attack us halfway, and the emperor must not come to the danger in person." The minister was willing to lead his troops to cross the river first to prevent the southerners from attacking. ”
Yelu Yanxi still wanted to be the first person in the Southern Expedition, and couldn't help frowning when he heard this. Of course, the far barricade that crosses the river does not count, otherwise the Central Plains would not have known how much detail there was.
Xiao Fengxian, a favored minister on the side, was unwilling to take risks with the emperor, so he hurriedly persuaded: "Lin Ya Dashi is right, the emperor is related to the society of the world, how can he be a former army." In my opinion, send 20,000 people to cross the river to form a formation first, and then it is safer for the emperor to cross the river. ”
"Report, the soldiers and horses of the Liang State are coming to the Baigou River."
The report of the distant barricade became the last straw that broke the camel's back, and Yelu Yanxi heard that the Liang army was approaching, and suddenly lost the first intention to cross the river, and nodded slightly.
When Yelu Dashi heard this, he immediately said: "The last general is willing to lead 10,000 troops to cross the river." ”
The surrounding generals also reacted and competed to be the pioneer of the river.
One of the most active Han generals was Guo Yaoshi, the commander of the resentful army.
In the fifth year of Tianqing, Yelu Yanxi led the whole army to attack the Jin State, and was defeated by the Jin State with 20,000 troops at Hubu Dagang.
The following year, Gao Yongchang, a native of Bohai, killed Xiao Baoxian in Liaodong, proclaimed himself the emperor of the Great Bohai Kingdom, changed the Yuan to Yingshun, and occupied more than 50 states in eastern Liaodong.
Yelu Yanxi sent his troops to attack, but was defeated by the Jurchen soldiers supporting Gao Yongchang in Shenzhou. The soldiers and horses of the Liao State were completely lost in the battle of Hubu Dagang, Yelu Yanxi had no choice but to order the Yan King Yelu Chun to recruit the hungry people in Liaodong, to take revenge on the Jurchens, called the "resentment army", divided into the former Yi battalion, the latter Yi battalion, the former Jin battalion, the Hou Jin battalion, the Qianying camp, the Xian battalion, the Qianxian battalion, and the Yanzhou battalion, a total of 28,000 people, and Guo Yaoshi was one of the leaders.
Originally, I wanted these hungry people to complain about Yu Jurchen, but before this resentful army sent troops, they complained about Yu Liao first. Because they didn't get enough equipment, these fierce rebels rebelled. The Liao State finally put down the rebellion and let this resentful army go to the front line, because the battle was unfavorable, the Liao State executed a general, and then the resentful army rebelled again.
Liaodu Tong Yelu Yu Jian and Xiao Gan led troops to quell the rebellion, and Guo Yaoshi saw that the situation was not good, killed several people who led the rebellion, and accepted Zhao'an.
The Liao State organized the remaining resentful army into four battalions, and appointed Guo Yaoshi, Zhang Linghui, Liu Shunren, and Zhen Wuchen as commanders.
At that time, Yelu Yu suggested to Xiao Gan: "The year before last, the two battalions rebelled and plundered Qianzhou, and they have been recruited from Zhao'an; This year, the whole army rebelled and attacked Jinzhou. If our army does not come, the city will be broken, and tens of thousands of residents will be killed. The so-called resentment of the army failed to repay the grievances of the Jin people, and repeatedly complained against my family. Now, if you take advantage of it to disarm and send troops to cover up and kill all of them, you will never be in trouble. ”
But Xiao Gan said: "There are also those who are loyal and righteous for a while, how can they be killed?" ”
Therefore, Guo Yaoshi and others were able to save their lives.
However, this was the beginning of the rebellion of the resentful army, and then Guo Yaoshi was even more in the Song, Liao, and Jin Kingdoms, and once helped the Liao State defeat Tong Guan who went north, and then saw that the Liao State was gone, and surrendered to the Song State and helped Tong Guan attack Yanjing. When the Jin State went south, he saw that the Jin State was unstoppable, and surrendered the Jin State again, leading the Jin soldiers to attack Bianjing.
Pharmacist Guo can be said to be capricious and unrestrained.
Of course, it didn't end well in the end, the first time the Jin State invaded the Song Dynasty, Wanyan Zongwang used Guo Yaoshi to lead the troops directly into the Song Dynasty Tokyo, seeing that Tokyo could not be breached, the soldiers and horses of the King of Qin in various states came one after another, and they could only force Song Qinzong to cede the three towns, and then collect the troops back to Yanjing.
Wanyan Zongwang was naturally not at ease with this capricious army, and he was also afraid that the Jin State would become a victim of the Liao State and the Song State. Immediately ordered the resentful army to unload their armor and return to the field, leaving thousands of unwilling to disarm, the Jin soldiers asked the resentful army to hand over their weapons on the grounds of searching for equipment, and then there was a massacre.
Pharmacist Guo survived, but he was never appointed again.
Yelu Yanxi looked at the generals and said, "Yelu Dashi, Wu Yanguang, you two are the pioneers." ”
Wu Yanguang is the first general of the Liao State, eighteen kinds of martial arts, all of which are incomprehensible, and he is familiar with military books and war strategies. He is thirty-five or sixteen years old, dignified and dignified, with a body of more than eight feet, white face, red lips, yellow eyes, and fierce courage. When he went into battle, he fought with a steel spear, killed to a thick place, and from time to time pulled out the iron shovel on his waist, so that the sound was loud, and the end was the courage of ten thousand people.
Originally, he was fighting against Jin in the north, but the king of the Southern Court learned that Yelu Yanxi was going to conquer in person, and he was afraid that the emperor would lose, so he hurriedly transferred Wu Yanguang to the south to escort him.
The two got the order and immediately led their troops to step onto the pontoon bridge and come to the south bank.
As soon as I crossed the river, I saw dozens of sentry soldiers and horses coming from the beam.
The general who came immediately, Zhang Qing, who clearly wrote "no feather arrows" on the flag, Gong Wang, the deputy general on the left, and Ding Desun, the deputy general on the right.
Zhang Qing is a commander under Lu Junyi, and he is now in charge of the sentry.
Zhang Qing watched the Liao soldiers cross the river and came straight to the river.
Wu Yanguang's vanguard Qiong Demon Nayan and Kou Zhenyuan are sworn brothers, and they were thinking about avenging their brothers, when they saw Zhang Qingshao coming, they immediately hit their horses to meet them.
I saw that Qiong Demon Nayan was wearing a fishtail cirrus cloud iron crown, wearing dragon scale and frost caulking armor, wearing a pomegranate red brocade robe, a golden belt of lychee seven treasures at his waist, wearing green eagle beak gold thread boots, and a silver bamboo cooked steel whip hanging from his waist. Stick a hard bow on the left and a long arrow on the right. The horse crossed the mountain beast, and the spear overturned the river and stirred the sea dragon......
Qiong Demon Nayan hit his horse to meet him and shouted: "Can the southerners dare to fight? ”
Zhang Qingshao probed in front of him, just because he wanted to make a contribution, and immediately asked Gong Wang, Ding Desun and others to stop, and he hit his horse to meet him.
Qiong Demon Nayan saw Zhang Qing coming up, and only thought that Zhang Qing was going to fight, so he came to fetch Zhang Qing with a gun.
When they were more than three feet away, Zhang Qing raised his right hand and shouted, "Go!" ”
A flying stone hit the door of the Qiong Demon Nayan, and the Qiong Demon Nayan couldn't bear the pain and fell off the horse.
Zhang Qing grabbed it, made up another shot, and stabbed Qiong Demon Nayan to death under the horse.
(To be continued)